MedPage Today March 27, 2020
— “If [patients] are sick and get us sick, we can’t help anyone”
Last week, Todd J. Maltese, DO, had to choose whether to keep his Long Island, New York, practice open and risk spreading COVID-19 coronavirus to his patients and employees, or shut its doors, losing the majority of outpatient visits that sustain them.
“I didn’t get much sleep that night trying to find out what to do,” Maltese told MedPage Today. “But I woke up knowing we couldn’t allow patients to come in anymore. If they’re sick and get us sick, we can’t help anyone.”
On Friday, March 20, Maltese and his partner closed their neurology and sleep medicine clinic in Ronkonkoma, about 60 miles east of...
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